Improvement in weeding and transplanting implement



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Patentgd Sept. 19, 1875.

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JOHN M. JONES, OF PALMYRA, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN WEEDING AND TRANSPLANTING IMPLEMENT.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 182,367, dated September 19, 1876; application filed November 1, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN M. JONES, of Palmyra, in the county of Wayne and State of New York, have invented a new. and use drawings, making a part of this specification,

in which Figure l is a sectional side elevation of my invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the lower portion of the implement, looking in the direction of the arrow inFig. 1. V

The object of this invention is to provide a cheap and efficient implement, to be used in weeding garden and flower beds, where the plants have acquired a-11y co11siderable growth, and which may also be employed as a trans-' planter for small roots.

It consists, mainly, in the employment of two somewhat duclr-bill-shaped blades, one or both of which are hinged to a hollow staff, and connected loosely to a governing-rod, connected to a lever hinged at the top of the staff, and running out at right angles, or

nearly so, therefrom, under a fixed handle, occupying a corresponding position.

I employ a staff, 0, of a convenient length. This may be made of wood, or a metallic tube may be used. If the former is employed, it should be bored out to allow the rod D to work freely through it. The ferrule F, to which the handle A is rigidly fixed, is made to turn upon the upper end of the staif or tube 0. The handle B is hinged to A at b, and to the said swinging handle B is hinged the upper end of the rod D. The

lower end 'of the rod is provided with a grooved head, H. The socket-ferrule S is formed with projecting hollow cars a, on opposite sides, near the lower end, within which the shanks of the duck a'jbill blades G are hinged at f. These shanks are each provided with a lug, c, projecting from near their hinged joint, and they rest within the groove in the periphery of the head H.

It will be seen that the spring E forces the head down, and with it the handle B, and

also the blades G, to their normal or open position, as shown in full lines.

The staff 0 is made fast within the socket S, but with the loose socket F, and by means of the groove in the head H, the relative position of the blades, and the handle A and V the staff, and having the other fixed thereto.

guided by it, while the right rests upon the handle A, with the fingers encircling the lever B. The blades Gr are placed astride the plant or weed to be withdrawn, and the implement forced downward suffieiently' to insure a firm hold upon the root. The lever B is then raised by the grasp of the right hand, whereby the blades G are forced toward the closed position, indicated by the dotted lines Gr, Fig. 1, and made to firmly clamp the root, which, it will be seen, will be more firmly clamped the harder it is necessary to lift on the lever B to withdraw the -root or plant.

It might be desirable to provideeach implement with two sets ofblades, G, one set made wide, to be used for transplanting, and the other narrow, for weeding. I

It will be seen that with this little implement a lady may weed her flower-beds without staining or soiling her fingers in the least by the leaves and earth. It also relieves the great strain upon the fingers, which is unavoidable in weeding by hand.

I claim 1. In combination with the grooved or hol- 10w stafi G, and fixed handle A, projecting 2 p nszsev therefrom at right anglesyor nearly so, the 3. In combination with the swiveied stafi hinged lever B, rod D, and blades G, as and O and grooved heed H, the hinged blade or for the purposes shown and described. blades G, as and" for the purposes set forth. 2. lncombination with the spring E and JOHN M. JONES.

head H, the rod D, staff 0, handle A, and Witnesses:

lever B, arranged to perate conjointly, sub- WM. S. LOUGHBOROUGH,

stantially as and for the purposes set forth. E. B; WHITMORE. 

